Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:33:26 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org,
       linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
       ak@suse.de, tony.luck@intel.com, Asit.K.Mallick@intel.com,
       gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc2 0/5] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device}
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:01:19PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> In this round, the new location for swiotlb is driver/pci/swiotlb.c.
> This is the result of discussions on lkml pointing-out that swiotlb is
> closely related to PCI.

Uh?  It implements DMA services, which aren't limited to PCI at all.
Despite the file including <linux.pci.h> and <asm/pci.h> (which should
probably both be removed), there's not a single PCI-related function in
this file.  You originally moved it to lib/ which made much more sense.
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